Some Geek Guides for Dating

An anonymous reader sends in this: "In honor of upcoming V-day, here are some geek guides for help in finding your geeky match: Guy's Guide to Geek Girls, Girl's Guide to Geek Guys, advice from a she-geek, Engineer Your Love Life and Bart's Dating Guide for Geeks. And for those of you who are absolutely hopeless, well, there is always Coincidence Designs... It's not too late, so good luck!" Another reader has some good news: "An article in Discover magazine reports on research done by scientists at the University of Toronto about how males attract mates. The cited article claims that when males are young, the show offs are actually the ones who are least likely to succeed later on. This causes a "revenge of the nerds effect:" the football players burn out but the nerds become sexy!" And if all else fails, you can try a Valentine's Day Form Letter.

Comments

poll...

[jeffy124]

I attempted to submit a poll for today..

Your gift for V-Day?

• Roses/Flowers
  
• Box of chocolates
  
• Card
  
• Dinner & Movie
  
• Jewelry
  
• I dont have a significant other, you insensitive clod!
  
• Weekend stay at Resort de CowboyNeal
  

Sent it in last night -- rejected.

Re:Geek personals?

[kruczkowski]

I know. /. could start something up and sort the guys and gals by karma!

Darwin Wouldn't think Its Great...

[Uart]

he cited article claims that when males are young, the show offs are actually the ones who are least likely to succeed later on. This causes a "revenge of the nerds effect:" the football players burn out but the nerds become sexy!"

Yes, but in Darwinian evolution, it doesn't matter when you get laid, it just matters that you get laid. In fact, gettin' it on, earlier in life, technically makes you more reproductively successful because any number of things could cause your early demise, the earlier onset of sexual activity would (assuming a condom-less world) pass on your genetic material to the next generation before the opportunity for premature death to occur.

Although it is an interesting fact. And in modern society, where human mating isn't random, etc. Its probably a good sign for the future of our species. I seem to recall reading about another study that showed an inverse relationship between the IQ of an individual and the age at which they first engaged in sexual activity. So if you are a 30 year old virgin, rejoice, and join Mensa!

Some hints from an ugly overweighted geek guy...

[Anonymous Coward]

that eventually succeeded, and now has a happy relationship with a nice (and -very- hot) woman.

1- Never ever show that you need a mate; if she approaches you it's because she needs you, not the other way around.

2- Being not good looking of course doesn't help when you look for "a girl a nite", but it's damn useful to find the right one to spend your life with.

3- There aren't clever but ugly OR damn-hot but stupid girls. One of the prettiest girls I've ever met was a computer programmer; the ugliest one was stupid as a brick.

4- Stop looking for a mate. -I'm serious- You'll find one when you'll stop searching. Focus your interests on something else and do it; don't let the lack of sex drive you crazy or you can be damn sure that no girl in the world will be interested in you.

It worked for me.
Just my .2 c.

Re:Send your ex a spiteful poem

[Tackhead]

> Depends greatly on the ex in question, though, doesn't it?

Good point. How about "Screw someone else's ex tonight!"

If they stopped to really think about it, that's what most people in relationships will be doing tonight anyways, right?

Re:Question

[JWSmythe]

I guess we all have to define dates our own way.. Mine would be:

1. Flowers at the beginning.
2. Dinner & drinks
3. Entertainment (club, movie)
4. Foreplay
5. Sex

A pathetic date wouldn't make it past 1.. I show up with flowers, she shows up looking like a heroin junkie just coming down, that's the end of it..

An annoying date doesn't get past 2.. It's amazing how useful those "Call me at 10pm" calls are.. Always give yourself an out.. Unless you're just hard up for the sex, but even then, if you're that hard up, you aren't getting that far.

If we get to 3, you almost have it made.. Don't hit on her friends at the club, or steal all the candy at the movie..

If you get to 4, you're just proving to her that you're worth taking to 5..

If you get past 5, and she makes you breakfast in the morning, you've found the perfect woman. :)

Re:We can only hope

[rynthetyn]

I know some (how's that for an indicator) women who are fairly smart, but the last few times I've been around them, I've noticed them acting dumb, like they were trying to pull off the "dumb blonde" routine. It just doesn't fit, and it wasn't attractive at all. It was even annoying.

As a woman, I have to say that I think that there is nothing worse than an intelligent woman who thinks that she needs to act dumb to snag a guy (and that is why they do it). I would have to say that if a guy was scared off because I am intelligent, then that guy isn't worth it. I'm not going to act like I'm dumb or pretend to be something I'm not just to snag some guy.

I remember back when my parents took my older brother to college, my mom met the mother of a girl who, like my brother, was in the honors program. The girl's mother started telling my mom about how her daughter was really smart, but didn't want to act too smart because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to find a husband if she acted smart. Yeah, that's just what you want to tell the mother of a male student. You can imagine what my mom told my brother after her conversation with that girl's mother.

Ryn, the female computer science major who refuses to act like a ditz (well, I don't make any promises when I'm short on sleep and have OD'd on caffeine and sugar)